Nouveau 52, part 3

I hope everyone had a decent Thanksgiving.

With the holiday bit out of the way, let's focus on the last part of the DC Trinity.

Nouveau 52, part 2

Ok, Superman is more or less out of the way for the First Wave. How about the Dark Knight?

Nouveau 52, part 1

A bit late I know, but if DC can screw around with their characters, why can't I?


This is basically what I'd do, assuming the higher ups at DC lost their damn minds and put me in charge of the new 52.

Overall, I'd keep the staff 50/50. Half veterans (Morrison, Simone, Ennis, etc.) and half new comers. Why? Because George Perez wasn't George Perez until someone gave him a chance. Also, with a few series aside, most of them would be set around the same time. No alternative Earths, no twenty different versions of Batman running around, etc. We'd start simple. Expand to crazy if you have to, but simple first.


On to the series and a few running plot threads. Right now we'll take a look at the First Wave.

Updates and future stuff

I hope everyone enjoyed this year's Horror Countdown. All the ghouls and ghosts have been laid to rest for another year, and hopefully they will rise again in 2018.

For the rest of the year, random updates and such. Had another series in mind, comic related. It might be a bit late, true, but then I've always been a bit late to the party.

Horror Countdown 2017: Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Dawn of the Dead (1978) dir. George Romero, Laurel Group Inc.

And now we reach the end my friends. Horror aplenty this past year, so why not close it out with one good scare?

Sequels can be a tricky thing. Too many and you risk diluting what made the first one good. This one, however, is not one of those. It is bit of an odd one. Looking at the Universal and even Hammer films, one tends to notice they had sequels out as little as the same year as the previous ones, yet Romero waited a full ten years before coming back to the world set up in Night of the Living Dead. 

His exact reasons aren't known, but modern cinema can agree it was good he waited.  

Horror Countdown 2017: Videodrome (1983)

Videodrome (1983) dir. David Cronenberg, Canadian Film Development Corporation

Now this is when things get weird. Cronenberg, never one to shy away from the grotesque, might have created one of the most horrific films made in the 80's. I know the term visionary might be a bit clichéd, but this is one film that can only be described as such.

Horror Countdown 2017: Poltergeist (1982)

Poltergeist (1982) dir. Tobe Hooper, SLM Production Group/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Taking a look at Tobe Hooper's next film, and wow. In the early 80's if you told me the guy behind the Texas Chainsaw Massacre would do a film with the guy behind E.T., I would have called you crazy. Of course, if one goes by the scuttlebutt around this film, Hooper didn't do anything more taxing than making sure the cameras were turned on and pointed at the actors. After watching it, I'm inclined to believe it.